Bill Text: NY A01754 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes state agencies to purchase commodities and services from preferred source providers in an amount not to exceed $200,000 without a formal competitive process.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A01754 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01754-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1754
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 13, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the state finance  law,  in  relation  to  discretionary
          buying thresholds
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 163 of the state finance  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  569  of  the  laws  of 2015, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    6. Discretionary buying thresholds. Pursuant to guidelines established
     5  by the state procurement council: the commissioner may purchase services
     6  and commodities in an amount not exceeding eighty-five thousand  dollars
     7  without  a  formal  competitive  process;  state  agencies  may purchase
     8  services and commodities in  an  amount  not  exceeding  fifty  thousand
     9  dollars  without  a  formal  competitive process; and state agencies may
    10  purchase commodities or services from small business concerns  or  those
    11  certified  pursuant  to articles fifteen-A and seventeen-B of the execu-
    12  tive law, from  preferred  source  providers  pursuant  to  section  one
    13  hundred sixty-two of this article, or commodities or technology that are
    14  recycled or remanufactured, or commodities that are food, including milk
    15  and  milk products, grown, produced or harvested in New York state in an
    16  amount not exceeding two  hundred  thousand  dollars  without  a  formal
    17  competitive process.
    18    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend-
    19  ments to section 163 of the state finance law, made by  section  one  of
    20  this  act,  shall  not affect the expiration and repeal of such section,
    21  and shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03797-01-7